Hoisting the spi in higher winds should be done with released main sheet and the traveller should be all they way out.
Are you serious ? Makes my boat slow down immediately and even makes it luff more quickly during the hoist. In my opinion all bad.
Having the main in center and sheeted hard works fine until you lose speed, then the flow over the main gets reversed and depending on which side the leach flips you will capsize either to lee or the other way!
I've have personally never encountered this problem. Maybe I'm good at keeping speed up during the hoist, I don't know. I have just never experienced such instability.
Having the main in center and sheeted hard (in big wind)
When singlehanding I never have the mainsail completely centred. The Taipan boat doesn't like that. It is always a little off centre even when going upwind. In big wind I do keep my mainsheet relatively tight, but I do let out a little traveller, but certainly not all the way. Pretty much I let it to the position I think I need when sailing under the spi in the conditions I have at the moment.
Interesting though, I always assumed that there are more ways in doing this.
Wouter
